Gardeners' Notes:

Hybrid Anemones are easy and lovely. 'Pamina' is a hybrid of A. hupehensis var. japonica and A. vitifolia. 'Pamina' has double flowers with more elongated, less rounded, daisy-like petals than most garden varieties. Like most fall-blooming anemones, it will gradually spread and form a nice drift. You can let them stay where they emerge if they aren't blocking the view of smaller plants or move them around the garden.

I have a a few of these growing near black walnut trees and under a gigantic double-trunked cedar tree in Zone 4a. They are a mainstay of my shade garden. The foliage is attractive all year, and they provide lovely rosy-pink double flowers in the fall when little else is blooming. Once established, they require very little care. I plan to add more of these next year to this shade garden and to another garden on the eastern side of my house.

Pamina has attractive maple-like leaves and charming, soft pink flowers that bloom from late summer into early fall. I have it under a pine tree in full, bright shade. It performs wonderfully there, even though there is competion from tree roots and less than optimal light, and spreads in a polite manner. -I have her sister, 'Honorine Jobert', in moist part-shade and spreading is much more aggressive under those conditions. When blooming is finished, I cut the plants to the ground and remove any old tattered foliage to neaten appearance.